Spring Fling

For the past several years, starting on the first day of Spring I’ve posted a quotation about the season as my Facebook status. I love Spring so much that I needed to celebrate! My friends seemed to approve, which encouraged me because who doesn’t like “likes” on Facebook?
This year I decided to go one better. Having recently learned how to make quote pictures (with various easy-peasy websites), I’ve been illustrating the quotation of the day. I post just the words on my personal page, and the pictures on my blog page.
Because I want to be able to pin them as well, I’m collecting them all here. I took all the pictures myself, but I can’t take credit for the words! I hope you enjoy them.
Spring 2015, Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.
Spring 2015, Pellissippi State Community College campus.
Spring 2015, Stoney Point Baptist Church Cemetery in Hardin Valley.
Spring 2015, first crocus in my front yard.
Spring 2015, Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.Spring 2010, front yard of our former home.
Spring 2014, on the Pellissippi Greenway.
Spring 2014, Anchor Park, Farragut.
Spring 2010, front yard of our former home.Just before Spring 2015, my garden.Spring 2010, the front yard of our former home.
Spring 2015, Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.Spring 2015, Pellissippi State Community College Campus.
Spring 2015, Seven Islands State Birding Park.
Spring 2010, in the woods behind our former home.
Spring 2010, Chilhowee Park.
Spring 2014, along the Pellissippi Greenway.
Spring 2013, Papermill Greenway.
Spring 2010, front yard of our former home.
Spring 2015, Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.Spring 2015, Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.
Spring 2015, Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.
Spring 2015, my front yard.
March 2016, my front yard.
Spring 2016, Sequoyah Hills Greenway.
Spring 2016, Forks of the River Trails.
Mother’s Day 2014, Melton Hill Park.
Spring 2016, my garden.
Spring 2016, Forks of the River Trails.
Spring 2016, my garden.
Spring 2016, my garden.

You made our Fridays Blog Booster Party so much sweeter with those lovely spring photos and verses. I am trying to pick which one I like the best. Maybe this one, Spring 2015, Seven Islands State Birding Park. Hard to pick though. I am looking forward to more of your posts next Friday.
Kathleen

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I feel pretty good when I read this list.~ A Grandparent’s Wisdom on Parenting ~

1. Let your child be a child. Children are not little adults.

2. Don’t have too many rules, especially when they’re little. They’re not going to remember them all anyway.

3. Pick your battles. It won’t work to make an issue out of everything your child does that you don’t like.

4. The greatest gift you can give your child besides your love is your time. Whenever possible, interrupt what you are doing to take time for them. Many things you need to do can be put off until later but many things your child does only happen once, and you don’t want to miss them.

5. Don’t micromanage your child’s behavior. It isn’t necessary (or productive in the long run) to try to control everything he or she says or does.

7. Kids get tired. When they do, it’s usually futile to try to reason with them to get them to do what you want.

8. Don’t say things to your own child that you would never dream of saying to someone else’s child.

9. Whatever stage your child is in, remember: this, too, shall pass, and they will move on to another stage. (This may be better or worse than the previous one!)

10. Don’t let mealtime become a battle zone. No child has ever starved to death yet because they didn’t eat everything on their plate.

11. Read to your child.

12. When your child starts talking, listen. What they say is important to them, and kids have great things to say.

13. Spend some time tucking your child into bed each night.

14. It’s good to find a church family to help you raise your child. You need others to support you. Your child needs to establish a good foundation of values and truth. If he or she doesn’t get this early in life, they might get it later and from someone else you may not like.

15. Take time every day to enjoy your child and relish this role God has blessed you with.

(Postscript: my dad says some of these are things he did, and some are things he wishes he’d done. ❤️) …

Timeline Photos"Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you." – Luke 14 #SundayGospel bit.ly/2ZpzEtS…

"Arsonists have set God’s Cathedral aflame. In the Amazon rainforest, home to hundreds of thousands of animal species, 40,000 plant species, and nearly a million indigenous people, fires are raging, destroying the ecological buttresses of one of the most biodiverse and important ecosystems in the world. These creatures are a testament to God’s good creation, a living, breathing cathedral, shaped by the evolutionary forces of God, and entrusted to human hands." …

"Baby loss is not just a story of grief, of pain and of tears, its a beautiful story of love and of celebration.

So let’s scream from the rooftops that all children matter, those that are here and those that we desperately miss."I haven’t shared this picture for quite some time so wanted to post it again this evening. These are my children…the ones that ran ahead and the ones who I get the honour to raise.

Someone said to me in an interview recently well you are the mother of two, I kindly corrected them. I am the mother of 7, just because five of my children didn’t get to grow up on the earth, doesn’t stop them from existing.

I also wanted to say this…Baby loss is not just a story of grief, of pain and of tears, its a beautiful story of love and of celebration.

So let’s scream from the rooftops that all children matter, those that are here and those that we desperately miss. ❤️

I am so unbelievably touched that SO many people have liked and shared this image, THANK You. Please feel free to also like my page and see future posts and quotes, I would love for you to become a FB friend x